ブックタイトル佐藤栄作論文集９～１６

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佐藤栄作論文集９～１６

take a greater responsibility in peacekeeping and in quelling civil disorder, and thosewho believe that the constitution already allows Japan to play a substantial role ifcircumstances permit. Since the Gulf War shocked the Japanese into the reality thatthere are expectations for their country to shoulder part of the burden of peace andsecurity, this latter school of thought is gaining ground. Yet there still exists a deepwariness amongst the Japanese public towards overseas commitments - howeverapparently innocuous and limited - which might escalate into military confrontation,and also anything which might allow the Japanese military establishment to gainstrength.Japan has participated in a number of peacekeeping operations under guidelineswhich are aimed at accommodating these pressures and sensitivities. Before Japanwill become involved certain conditions must obtain: there must be a cease-fire, theparties to the conflict must give their consent to the deployment of peace-keepersand to Japan’s participation, peacekeeping must be impartial, the use of weaponsmust be limited to the minimum necessary to protect the lives of personnel, andJapan reserves the right to withdraw if these guidelines cease to be satisfied. 26 Underthese principles and through the International Peace Cooperation Law passed in1992, Japanese nationals have participated in UN operations in Angola, Cambodia,Mozambique, El Salvador, Rwanda and the Golan Heights in Syria. Although theJapanese contingents have started at a relatively modest level the amount of goodwillcreated has been invaluable. In terms of Asia, a region of obvious importance toJapan, the effects have been especially useful. For example, all the ASEAN countriesexcept Brunei participated in the Cambodia operation alongside Japan and this was avaluable confidence-building exercise.The Japanese government has made progress in raising consciousness amongst54226 Peacekeeping: Japan’s Policy and Statements, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, 1997, pp.15-16. See also Fujita Hiroshi,‘UNReform and Japan’s Permanent Security Council Seat’, Japan Quarterly, October-December 1995; Sadako Ogata,‘Japan’spolicy towards the United Nations’; Robert M. Immerman,‘Japan and the United Nations’, in C. Garby and Mary BrownBullock ed., Japan: A New Kind of Superpower?;‘Naniga Nihon no Kokuekinanoka’,［Symposium: What is the Japanesenational interest?］, Ch?o Koron, February 1996.